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Gonorrhea

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the Gram-negative diplococcus Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which colonizes the columnar epithelium of the urogenital tract, rectum, pharynx, and conjunctiva. Transmission occurs through unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral contact, and perinatally from mother to neonat…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 5 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 4× across the literature 🗓 Reviewed August 2026

Overview

Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the Gram-negative diplococcus Neisseria gonorrhoeae, which colonizes the columnar epithelium of the urogenital tract, rectum, pharynx, and conjunctiva. Transmission occurs through unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral contact, and perinatally from mother to neonate during delivery. Infection in men typically presents as urethritis with purulent discharge and dysuria, whereas in women it is frequently asymptomatic, which favors undetected transmission and ascending spread to the upper genital tract. Untreated infection can progress to pelvic inflammatory disease, epididymitis, infertility, ectopic pregnancy, and, less commonly, disseminated gonococcal infection with arthritis and dermatitis. Diagnosis relies chiefly on nucleic acid amplification testing, supplemented by culture when antimicrobial susceptibility data are required. A central concern in contemporary management is the organism's progressive acquisition of resistance to successive drug classes, including penicillins, tetracyclines, fluoroquinolones, and increasingly the cephalosporins, which has narrowed first-line therapy and prompted dual-agent regimens and surveillance programs. Gonorrhea frequently co-occurs with other sexually transmitted infections such as chlamydia and syphilis, so screening, partner notification, and integrated reproductive-health services remain core to control. Scholarship in this area spans microbiology, clinical management, resistance epidemiology, and preventive public-health practice.

Research published in this journal

5 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 5 articles above have been cited 4 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Antibiotic Research.

Journal editorial board
Asim Ahmed Elnour · United Arab Emirates ELISABETH ZEUKO'O MENKEM · Cameroon Fatma mohammed Mady · Egypt

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